before you overclock anything, especially a card like that, I suggest making sure you have adequate cooling, preferably watercooling or better.
id say its pretty much not possible to get fps drops from your x800 its prob your cpu or ram bottlenecking it, but to oc it go to bios.
OVERCLOCKING - The act of running a chip at a higher clock speed than it was specified for. Very often, chips are capable of running faster than they are specified for, and thus can be safely overclocked. You overclock a chip by setting it at a higher bus speed, a higher multiplier, or both. Sometimes you need to set the chip to run at a higher voltage to accomplish this, further increasing the heat output of the chip. that better?
That makes sense, making somethingg faster than it says on the box. Is there a chance of damaging the chip is you over overclock it?
you bet, it cuts down on the life of the chip. like my amd64 3200+ runs @ 2.2ghz stock and i could pump it up to 4ghz and still have windows boot. but if i left it there and didnt properly cool it the chip would crap out alot faster.
you'd never get a 3200 to 4Ghz, just wouldnt go the best amd OC i seen is 3.1Ghz on a (skt 939) 3500 using a prometia mach 2 (-50 degrees centrigrade!!!!) Anyways overclocking is how i save myself tons of money, buy lower, clock higher, same performance (runnning my 2Ghz 3000+ at 2.185 Ghz, hoping for more with watercooling) Anyways to stay on topic like glitch said it aint gonna be ur gfx card thats the problem, far more likely to be a bottleneck elsewhere (i got a 9800Pro [not OCed] and i can play Doom3 fine without any fps drops or whatever on ultra mode). Whats the rest of your system specs?
I have a 9800 Pro, now I heard if you increase voltage it will give you better performance(Yes I know that = better cooling) Now the stock is 1.5v as I have read in a post, and it gives best performance @ 1.7v. How do I change that? (If anyone knows, step by step instructions please)
DarkAZNboi1313: I thnk i mentioned one of the better methods in my previous post; vapour phase change systems. They don't come cheap mind, theres two main companies that deal with it tho, prometeia and vapochill. If you wanna find out more I'd recommend skimming the forums at www.extremeprometeia.com S1lence: Just go into you bios when you computer is booting and change the values from there, it'll be listed under AGP Voltage or possibly AGP VCore, hope that helps. As far as I was aware tho you only up the voltage after upping the clock speeds, like you do with processors, ie increase the clock speed til its unstable then increase the Vcore and it should run stably. I may be wrong but thats what i thought anyway
